How to Switch from SmugMug to WordPress
More and more we're seeing photographers have the desire to move from SmugMug to WordPress, and for many reasons. Complete control over the user experience Additional display styles for galleries…
Using NextGEN Gallery with Page Builders
https://youtu.be/OZ8cFDWLRfY Page Builders offer easy control over how a page is created and edited. Typically no coding knowledge is required to use a page builder plugin. In the past, we…
How to Optimize NextGEN Gallery & Pro for Performance (without additional plugins)
NextGEN Gallery is already an extremely fast gallery plugin for WordPress. It's also the most robust, which means there are settings which could potentially slow down a site. In this…
The NextGEN Gallery Media Library Importer
One popular request we were receiving was the ability to import from the Media Library, without having to navigate individual folders on the server. The Import Folder file browser is…
Introducing Retina Support
NextGEN Plus and Pro now offer full retina support for thumbnails on all Pro thumbnail style galleries. This is a very exciting feature which will make the thumbnail quality look even…
Introducing Hover Effects
NextGEN Plus and Pro now include the ability to display social sharing icons, titles and descriptions within a hover effect. We have created a series of hover styles and provided…
Introducing Album Breadcrumbs
NextGEN Plus & Pro now offer album breadcrumbs when using the automated album and gallery display when included within an album. "Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a…
How to Update A NextGEN Gallery from Lightroom (in 2 Seconds)
Use NextGEN Gallery Export from Alloyphoto and take advantage of easy photo publishing within Adobe Lightroom. Check out NextGEN Gallery Export here.
Proofing Photos With WordPress
In this article I want to talk briefly about proofing photos with WordPress. For the scenario I am going to to use wedding photography as an example, but note that…
Adjusting the Proofing Star Colors
In NextGEN Pro 2.0 we added proofing to the Ecommerce system. Your customers would navigate thumbnails and click on the star display trigger in order to select an image to…